Olaudah Equiano
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Olaudah Equiano [ɒləˈuːdə ɛkwɪˈanəʊ] (alias Gustavus Vassa [ɡʊˈstɑːvəs ˈvɑːsa]; Essaka, o. 1745. – Westminster, 31. marta 1797.), engleski abolicionist. Jedna od najpoznatijih ličnosti afričkog porijekla koja je sudjelovala u raspravama u vezi sa zabranom trgovine robljem u Britaniji. Napisao je znamenitu autobiografiju pod naslovom Zanimljiva pripovijest o životu Olaude Equiana, ili Gustavusa Vasse, Afrikanca (The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, 1789) u kojoj je prikazao užase ropstva i koja je utjecala na britanske zakonodavce da konačno ukinu trgovinu robljem 1807. U mladosti je bio rob, a nakon što je otkupio svoju slobodu postao je i sam trgovac robljem i pomorac.
Pojavljuje se kao lik u filmu Amazing Grace iz 2006. godine, a u kome ga tumači senegalski pjevač Youssou N'Dour.
- Djela čiji je autor Olaudah Equiano na Projektu Gutenberg
- Audio recording of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano na LibriVox
- Olaudah Equiano na BBC
- Africans in America - Olaudah Equiano na PBS
- Equiano Arhivirano 2009-02-02 na Wayback Machine-u at Parliament and the British Slave Trade 1600-1807
- Olaudah Equiano: Black Britain's Political Founding Father Arhivirano 2011-07-25 na Wayback Machine-u at 100 Great Black Britons
- African Snow Riding Lights Theatre Company. drama iz 2007. godine
- Amazing Grace official US website
- Amazing Grace official UK website
- A Son of Africa 1998 short film from California Newsreel
- Autobiography and Memory: Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano, the African Paul E. Lovejoy. May-October 2005.
- "Where Was Olaudah Equiano Born?" [1] Brycchan Carey's list of Africanist/Americanist positions. (accessed 11 June 2007)
- Unraveling the Narrative Jennifer Howard. The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 9, 2005.
- Olaudah Equiano: A Critical Biography Brycchan Carey. 13 December 2005.
- Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa Arhivirano 2006-10-13 na Wayback Machine-u at Soham On-Line; includes details of church records of Equiano's marriage and deaths in the family